<p>thanks for the recommendation idad even though you shot my reasoning process all to hell!</p>
<p>So perhaps the poem analogy was a bad choice
but my comments about those who don't feel that high school students need to take more than 2 years of math still stands.
Apparently because that is all they have needed or used in their line of work, but I worry that we are limiting students if that is all we expect of them. Would we think they could do well in life if they only had two years of english/history in high school?
They certainly wouldn't be able to attend college if that is all they have, and they won't be able to enter the science/math fields if that is all they have in math.</p>